UMEB: Research Integrating Molecular and Environmental Sciences (R.I.M.E.S.) Program

分子科学与环境科学的整合研究(R.I.M.E.S.)该计划是一项国际研究和教育合作。它是为完成两年大学学业并致力于海洋或环境科学研究事业的极具积极性的少数族裔学者而创建的。就像杰克逊博士在马萨诸塞湾社区学院为非传统学生提供的非常成功的生物技术项目一样，R.I.M.E.S.项目的指导思想是，持续的跨学科研究培训加上密集的指导，推动非传统学者在科学领域取得成功。该项目的目标是培养一支在海洋和环境科学领域拥有杰出的、在数量上意义重大的少数族裔研究人员队伍，他们将为各自领域带来卓越的成就和亟需的多样性。RI.M.E.S.项目的学术部分设在波士顿大学医学院(BUSM)，为博士学位项目的学术严谨做好准备。这是通过密集的指导和严格的教程来实现的，旨在提高学者在低年级和高年级的学术表现。RI.M.E.S.项目的学者是通过严格的申请程序挑选出来的，该程序旨在识别和招募最积极的个人。招聘的重点是那些个人环境使传统大学教育变得困难或不可能的男性和女性。因此，招聘主要来自三类大学二年级学生：(1)来自单亲家庭(美国最危险的两个社会群体)的年轻非裔美国人和西班牙裔男性，(2)孩子年龄在12岁及以上的单身母亲，以及(3)为了抚养孩子而推迟教育的已婚女性。这些类别的学者在面对压倒性障碍的情况下进入大学。因此，他们已经具备了推动成功科学家职业生涯的人性品质：坚持不懈、专注、足智多谋、狡猾和坚韧。R.I.M.E.S.计划的学术部分促进了这些属性的利用，从而使学者们取得并期待着持续的学术成就。R.I.M.E.S.计划的研究部分通过在BUSM对蒙特塞拉特岛(北安的列斯群岛)夏季实地考察中收集的生物进行分子研究，将海洋、环境科学和分子生物学结合在一起。由来自多个国家的知名海洋和环境科学家组成的研究导师团队可以为这些学者提供蒙特塞拉特研究方面的指导，并在他们回到杰克逊博士在北卡罗来纳大学的实验室后(通过电子邮件、电话和传真)进行指导。研究项目集中于因苏弗里尔山火山喷发(1995年和1997年)和持续活动对蒙特塞拉特生态系统造成的环境压力的影响。这场大灾难带来的突如其来的环境变化为从分子水平研究生态系统的发展提供了难得的机会。研究的重点是生物体对火山引起的突然环境变化的适应性反应中被修改的分子过程。

The Research Integrating Molecular and Environmental Sciences (R.I.M.E.S.) Program is an international research and educational collaboration. It was created for highly motivated minority scholars who have completed two years of college and who are committed to research careers in marine or environmental sciences. As with Dr. Jackson's highly successful Biotechnology Program for nontraditional students at Massachusetts Bay Community College, the guiding philosophy of the R.I.M.E.S. Program is that continuous interdisciplinary research training coupled with intensive mentoring drive the success of nontraditional scholars in science. The goal is to produce an outstanding and numerically significant corps of minority researchers in the marine and environmental sciences who will bring distinction and much-needed diversity to their fields.The academic component of the R.I.M.E.S. Program occurs at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and prepares scholars for the scholastic rigor of a doctoral-degree program. This is achieved through intensive mentoring and rigorous tutorials designed to enhance the academic performance of scholars during their junior and senior years. Scholars are selected to the R.I.M.E.S. Program through a rigorous application process designed to identify and recruit only the most motivated individuals. Recruitment focuses on men and women whose personal circumstances made traditional college education difficult or impossible. Thus, recruitment is primarily from three categories of college sophomores: (1) young African-American and Hispanic males from single-parent families (the two most at-risk societal groups in the nation), (2) single mothers whose children are 12 years and older, and (3) married women who deferred their education to raise children. Scholars from these categories attend college in the face of overwhelming obstacles. Thus, they already possess the human qualities that drive the career of a successful scientist: persistence, focus, resourcefulness, guile and tenacity. The academic component of the R.I.M.E.S. Program promotes the utilization of these attributes so that scholars achieve and expect continuous scholastic excellence.The research component of the R.I.M.E.S. Program integrates marine and environmental science and molecular biology through molecular investigations at BUSM of organisms collected in summer field research on the volcanic island of Montserrat (Northern Antilles). A corps of research mentors, established marine and environmental scientists from several countries, is available to guide the scholars on Montserrat and (by e-mail, phone and fax) after they return to Dr. Jackson's lab at BUSM. The research projects converge on effects of the environmental stresses exerted on the ecosystem of Montserrat by the eruptions (in 1995 and 1997) and ongoing activity of the Soufriere Hills volcano. The abrupt environmental changes produced by this cataclysm provide a rare opportunity to study ecosystem development at the molecular level. The investigative focus is on molecular processes that have been modified in adaptive response of organisms to sudden environmental changes caused by the volcano.